Confusion as Libya Drops Off the Internet.
By Kevin Murphy An entire nation's internet addresses stopped functioning for almost five days, before being reactivated yesterday. All URLs and email addresses ending in the domain .ly, for Libya, did not work between Friday and Tuesday. Thousands of web sites, many of them in...

ICANN Says VeriSign Lawsuit a SLAPP to Free Speech.
By Kevin Murphy The Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers yesterday said it has asked a California court to throw out most of a lawsuit filed by VeriSign Inc in February, and said it will try to toss more next week on free speech grounds. ...

Name that bank! The right moniker may be more important than you think.
Your bank may be burdened with an old-fashioned name. "In the past, monolithically designed corner bank buildings displayed their hard assets," says Naseem Javed, author of the book "Naming for Power," and founder of the business ABC Namebank. "Overly dramatic, long and monopolistic names engraved on the...

Web tangle: Mayoral sites stir controversy.
Byline: CITY BEAT/EUGENE By Edward Russo The Register-Guard In the political hubbub surrounding a possible write-in campaign by Mayor Jim Torrey, a sideshow developed over two Web sites. Last month, people urging Torrey to run against mayoral nominee Kitty Piercy launched a Web site named...

ENUM Still Stalled in US.
By Kevin Murphy Public deployment of ENUM, the three-year-old standard for using telephone numbers over the internet, is still a way off in the US, despite the fact that many people think it will be an essential component of widespread voice over IP adoption. The...

Danger! Squatters may be lurking near your bank's website.
Recently, Nevada State Bank, which has its headquarters in Las Vegas, was conducting an intellectual property audit when an outside attorney uncovered the unpleasant fact that the bank's website was plagued with two serious problems: cybersquatters and typosquatters. At the time, Jeff Bargerhuff, senior vice president of...

Africa calls for more cyber-rights.
THE INTERNET, developed as an instrument of US military defence, has long been controlled by the United States. But as the Internet evolves into a global commercial and information resource and a potential tool for development, a growing number of countries are demanding a stake in its running. ...

New tactic in Web crime fighting raises concerns.
Byline: From Register-Guard and news service reports SAN JOSE, Calif. - Federal agents routinely seize property allegedly used in the commission of a crime, anything from a drug dealer's car or speedboat to a hacker's computer. In a series of raids in recent weeks, the...

Glass artists' arrests stoke 'culture war'.
Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard For six years, Jason Harris and Saeed Mohtadi ran their glass pipe businesses entirely in the open. Harris sold the smoking pipes through his retail store, Higher Source, at 133 E. 13th Ave. The two men advertised and sold glass...

What's in a name? The case of jeanettewinterson.com.
If, as Michel Foucault maintains, the function of an author is "tied to the legal and institutional systems that circumscribe, determine, and articulate the realm of discourses" (130), then any dispute over the legal rights to an author's name will constitute a struggle over how that function should be...